[Agora Publication] Robertson (1998): The City Center of Archaic Athens

Robertson, Noel ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 67.3 3 283-302 10.2307_2668475 ... 1998 ... The City Center of Archaic Athens

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 12 (1971): An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora

Burr Thompson, D ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and varied commercial life. This booklet illustrates the archaeological, documentary, and pictorial evidence for such diverse trades ... 1971 ... As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and varied commercial life.

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[Agora Publication] Agora XIV: The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center

Thompson, H. A. Wycherley, R. E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from ... 1972 ... The subtitle, The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center, suggests the general character of this volume, which provides an overview of the area that served as the civic center of Athens from about 600 B.C. to A.D. 267.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 13 (1973): Early Burials from the Agora Cemeteries

Immerwahr, S. A ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and ... 1973 ... Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 16 (1976): The Athenian Agora, a Short Guide to the Excavations

Camp, J ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... In a newly revised version of this popular site guide, the current director of excavations in the Athenian Agora gives a brief account of the history of the ancient center of Athens. The text has been ... 2003 ... In a newly revised version of this popular site guide, the current director of excavations in the Athenian Agora gives a brief account of the history of the ancient center of Athens. The text has been updated and expanded to cover the most recent archaeological discoveries, and the guide now features numerous color illustrations.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 17 (1978): Socrates in the Agora

Lang, M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... As far as we know, the 5th-century B.C. Greek philosopher Socrates himself wrote nothing. We discover his thoughts and deeds entirely through the writings of his followers, disciples who accompanied him ... 1978 ... The author not only sheds new light on the great philosopher’s life, but also provides a vivid reconstruction, through following the career of one of its most famous citizens, of daily life at the center of classical Athens.

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[Agora Publication] Hesperia Suppl. 14 (1975): The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and Phylai, and Their Representation in the Athenian Council

Traill, J. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Using inscriptions recording council membership recovered by excavations in the Athenian Agora, the author presents a detailed reconstruction of the political geography of Attica. The reforms of the 6th-century ... 1975 ... The author shows how this visionary arrangement was maintained almost unchanged until at least 200 B.C. and provided the basis for the whole representative system at the center of ancient democracy.

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[Agora Publication] AgoraPicBk 23 (1994): Life, Death, and Litigation in the Athenian Agora

Lang, M ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of evidence for legal activity found in the Agora makes clear. Every kind of case, from assault and battery to murder, and from ... 1994 ... Every kind of case, from assault and battery to murder, and from small debts to contested fortunes, were heard in various buildings and spaces around the civic center, and the speeches given in defence and prosecution remain some of the masterpieces of Greek literature.

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[Agora Publication] Hesperia Suppl. 31 (2003): Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters’ Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora

Papadopoulos, J. K ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... This volume presents selected material associated with potters' workshops and pottery production from some 14 Early Iron Age contexts northwest of the Athenian Acropolis that range in date from the Protogeometric ... 2003 ... Located in the area that was to become the Agora of Classical Athens, these deposits establish that the place was used for industrial activity until it was formally transformed into the civic and commercial center of the city in the early 5th century B.C.

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[Agora Publication] Agora XXXII: Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports

Hayes, J ... The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery generally termed terra sigillata found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table ... 2008 ... These fine wares, like the other table wares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, were all imported—a very different situation to earlier periods where Athens was known as a great ceramic-making center, and perhaps the result of mass destruction of potters’ workshops during the Sullan sack of 86 B.C.

[Agora Publication] Corinth VII.2: Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well

Amyx, Darrell A. Lawrence, Patricia ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration, selected from those previously unpublished or inadequately ... 1975 ... The authors have also given attention to vase-painters of the Protocorinthian and Corinthian periods who were previously known chiefly from works exported in antiquity, and have succeeded in establishing the importance of the Corinth Museum as a center for the study of the Corinthian Style.

[Agora Publication] Corinth I.3: Architecture

Scranton, Robert L ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Part 3 of Corinth I continues the publication of the architectural remains in the general area of the Agora. The volume includes monuments which limit the Agora at the west, those which run through the ... 1951 ... The volume includes monuments which limit the Agora at the west, those which run through the center of the Agora separating the Lower from the Upper Agora, those immediately above Peirene facing onto the Agora, Roman monuments in the Lower Agora area, and finally the buildings on the north slope of the hill on which stands the Archaic Temple.

[Agora Publication] Corinth I.4: The South Stoa and its Roman Successors

Broneer, Oscar ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... After a discussion of the fragmentary evidence for several buildings of the Greek period which were swept to construct it, the South Stoa at Corinth is treated in detail. Careful description of all the ... 1954 ... Careful description of all the remains, both those in situ and reused blocks, forms the basis of the reconstruction of this extensive two-story building of the third quarter of the 4th century B.C. which stretched the full length of the south side of the Corinthian Agora and, more than any other single building, established the size and shape of the center of the Hellenistic and Roman city.

[Agora Publication] Broneer (1956): The North Slope Krater, New Fragments

Broneer, O ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... The calyx-krater of Exekias, first published in 1937,1 was discovered at the bottom of a well in the American School excavations on the North slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The circumstances of discovery ... 1956 ... The larger of the new pieces,4 from the center of the warrior scene ( Pl. 50, a), preserves much of the two overlapping shields of the protagonists. ... His arms and details of the shield are rendered with incise lines, the palmettes of the ὀχάνη in the center are painted white, the outer edge of the rim and the handle at the lower edge are in purple. ... One striking dissimilarity is shown by the new fragment from the center of the scene.